Narrow Quotes

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by… — George Orwell
There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors Remain closed for… — Wayne Thomas Batson
The story was a sleeping girl in a narrow bed Dark hair thick and wild and twisted like seaweed across the pillow... Bella's Lullaby — Stephenie Meyer
I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the truck, leaving her standing there. She blinked… — Linda Howard
Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his… — Flannery O'Connor
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry… — Jim Butcher
And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into… — Orhan Pamuk
Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind. — Glen Cook
If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist… — Tom Robbins
I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies… — Helen Keller
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of… — Barack Obama
People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the… — Elizabeth Chandler
Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I… — Janet Chapman
Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls… — John Flanagan
When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house… — Lev Grossman
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in… — Jane Austen
The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it… — Alexandre Dumas-fils
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by… — Anchee Min
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my… — Franz Kafka
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you… — Corrie Ten Boom
Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she… — Cassandra Clare

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